Italian baroque architecture

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From the Vatican's St. Peter's Square to the Trevi Fountain

San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane Rome, Italy. Francesco Borromini (architect) 1638-1646 C.E. Stone and stucco He was much criticized as an architect who ignored the rules of the Ancients in favour of whimsy. However it is his clear knowledge of those rules, and the facility and ingenuity with which he manipulated them, which has ensured his reputation as one of the great geniuses in the history of architecture.

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ITALIAN BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE, Cortona; church of Santi Luca e Martina (1634-69), next to Roman Forum, by Cortona. "Cortona's major architectural work, is the church of SS. Luca E Martina. The two storied central section of the facade follows a convex curve, which seems the result of pressure from the rectangular blocks flanking it. Columns are embedded into the convex wall in the manner devised by Michelangelo in the vestibule of the Laurentian Library in Florence."

San Carlino, Rome, Borromini

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